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WORKS BY

Anna Katharine Green

THE LEAVENWORTH CASE. A STRANGE DISAPPEARANCE. THE SWORD OF DAMOCLES. HAND AND RING. THE MILL MYSTERY. BEHIND CLOSED DOORS. CYNTHIA WAKEHAM'S MONEY. MARKED "PERSONAL." MISS HURD: AN ENIGMA. DR. IZARD. THAT AFFAIR NEXT DOOR. LOST MAN'S LANE. AGATHA WEBB. ONE OF MY SONS. THE OLD STONE HOUSE. 7 TO 12 AND X. Y. Z. THE DOCTOR, HIS WIFE, AND THE CLOCK. THE DEFENCE OF THE BRIDE, AND OTHER POEMS. RISIFI'S DAUGHTER. A DRAMA. THE HOUSE OF THE WHISPERING PINES.

G. P. PUTNAM'S SONS NEW YORK & LONDON

[Illustration: "'Let me have it!' cried Huckins. 'I have lived in this hole for fifteen years, till I have almost rotted away like the place itself!'"]

Cynthia Wakeham's Money

By

Anna Katharine Green

Author of "The Leavenworth Case," "Hand and Ring," "The Mill Mystery," "The Defence of the Bride," etc.

G. P. Putnam's Sons New York and London The Knickerbocker Press

COPYRIGHT, 1892

BY

ANNA KATHARINE GREEN

Entered at Stationers' Hall, London BY G. P. PUTNAM'S SONS

Electrotyped, Printed, and Bound by The Knickerbocker Press, New York G. P. PUTNAM'S SONS

CONTENTS.

BOOK I.

A VILLAGE MYSTERY.

CHAPTER. PAGE.

I. A WOMAN'S FACE 1

II. A LAWYER'S ADVENTURE 10

III. CONTINUATION OF A LAWYER'S ADVENTURE 27

IV. FLINT AND STEEL 36

V. DIFFICULTIES 45

VI. YOUNG MEN'S FANCIES 55

VII. THE WAY OPENS 71

VIII. A SEARCH AND ITS RESULTS 80

IX. THE TWO SISTERS 92

X. DORIS 97

XI. LOVE 109

XII. HOW MUCH DID IT MEAN? 122

XIII. FRESH DOUBTS 142

XIV. IN THE NIGHT WATCHES 150

BOOK II.

THE SECRET OF THE LABORATORY.

XV. THE BEGINNING OF CHANGES 158

XVI. A STRANGE VISITOR 169

XVII. TWO CONVERSATIONS 181

XVIII. SUSPENSE 193

XIX. A DISCOVERY 205

XX. THE DEVIL'S CAULDRON 213

XXI. IN THE LABORATORY 232

XXII. STEEL MEETS STEEL 239

XXIII. A GROWING HORROR 249

XXIV. FATHER AND CHILD 261

XXV. EDGAR AND FRANK 272

BOOK III.

UNCLE AND NIECE.

XXVI. THE WHITE POWDER 279

XXVII. THE HAND OF HUCKINS 286

XXVIII. IN EXTREMITY 300

XXIX. IN THE POPLAR WALK 307

XXX. THE FINAL TERROR 315

XXXI. AN EVENTFUL QUARTER OF AN HOUR 327

XXXII. THE SPECTRE OF THE LABORATORY 332

CYNTHIA WAKEHAM'S MONEY.

BOOK I.

A VILLAGE MYSTERY.

I.

A WOMAN'S FACE.

It was verging towards seven o'clock. The train had just left Marston station, and two young men stood on the platform surveying with very different eyes the stretch of country landscape lying before them. Frank Etheridge wore an eager aspect, the aspect of the bright, hopeful, energetic lawyer which he was, and his quick searching gaze flashed rapidly from point to point as if in one of the scattered homes within his view he sought an answer to some problem at present agitating his mind. He was a stranger in Marston.